Comment 4 for bug 1705766

PDNS 4.0.0-alpha2 in Xenial is horribly broken(*) so IMO it seems a bit of a waste of effort backporting this specific fix, without also backporting the critical fixes from 4.0.0 alpha 3 and later, which in turn would be best done by going straight to 4.0.0 release (or 4.0.4+)

PDNS is a fine piece of software, and it's a shame that for many people their first experience will be using the Xenial package, which may put them off forever - it nearly did for me.

(*) at least with a SQL backend:
https://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2016-May/024192.html

At the moment, it seems the only safe way to run pdns-server on Xenial is to use the packages from the origin repository: https://repo.powerdns.com/